Coming to you from August of 2024, Thomas Salerno, Elisabeth Dawson, and I (Andrew Snyder) discuss Tolkien, "On Fairy-Stories" and related topics regarding the arts, philosophy, and more. I also provide some updates on what is happening with Mythic Mind, including a new course and a new series.

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Thomas Salerno: https://thomasjsalerno.substack.com/

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The BBC's audio drama of That Hideous Strength looked like a gift to Lewis readers. Listening closely, the production often leaves behind the fairy tale Lewis said he was telling, including the academic "progressive element" that gives Belbury its bite.

In this Mythic Mind episode, Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) walks his review of the adaptation: what it gets, what it flattens in Mark and Jane Studdock, NICE, and Ransom the Pendragon, and why the novel still needs the earlier Ransom books beside it.

Topics include adaptation fidelity, modern power dressed as progress, and why a hollow audio drama can still send you back to the book.

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Related:
• A Review of the BBC's That Hideous Strength (Mythic Mind, ep. 186): https://youtu.be/DX3JxXTG7LI
• Mythic Mind 106 - Introduction to That Hideous Strength: https://youtu.be/rTO6qBf0WNs
• Mythic Mind 107 - That Hideous Strength, Pt. 1: https://youtu.be/6nouFFhsDKs
• Mythic Mind 109 - That Hideous Strength, Chs. 12-17: https://youtu.be/PrNMmmozb2U

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Join Andrew Snyder and patrons of the Mythic Mind Fellowship as we work our way through the Poetic Edda. In this conversation, we discuss A Short Poem about Sigurd, Brynhild's Ride to Hell, The Death of Niflungs, The Third Poem of Gurdun, Oddrun's Lament, The Poem of Atli, and the Greenlandic Lay of Atli


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In this episode, I (mostly) read my recent article for the Mythic Mind Substack on video games and sub-creation, which you can find here: mythicmind.substack.com

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This is a collection of the audio from my last four YouTube videos.

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Video games as a medium: enchantment, craft, story, and whether play can expand the imagination the way literature does. Dr. Andrew Snyder (professor of philosophy and theology) sits down with Master Samwise and Josh Traylor to weigh the art of games without nostalgia or dismissal.

In this Mythic Mind conversation, they talk favorite titles, subcreation on the screen, beauty and aesthetics in worlds like Dark Souls, and how games might fit beside books as a serious avenue of creative attention.

Topics include games as art form, craft worth taking seriously, and the difference between wasted time and formative play.

Related:
• Knights of the Old Republic: Choice, Jolee, and the Light (Mythic Mind, ep. 93): https://youtu.be/KfutgcIdL5M
• War of the Rohirrim: The Lord of the Rings Anime (Mythic Mind, ep. 67): https://youtu.be/Yns-tDu_S-4
• On Fairy-Stories: Subcreation, Escape, and Consolation (Mythic Mind, ep. 36): https://youtu.be/a0hIBT-Ncss
• Master Samwise: https://www.youtube.com/@master_samwise

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#MythicMind #VideoGames #GamesAsArt #Subcreation #MasterSamwise #Theology #Philosophy

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In this episode, I discuss a bit about where we have been and where we are going.

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Join Andrew Snyder and patrons of the Mythic Mind Fellowship as we work our way through the Poetic Edda. In this conversation, we discuss The Death of Sinfiotli, The Prophecy of Gripir, the Lays of Regin, Fafnir, and Sigrdrifa, and Fragment of a Poem about Sigurd. 

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Tolkien did not expect history to be anything but a long defeat, though it may contain glimpses of final Victory.

Drawing from his letters, The Lord of the Rings, "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics," and "On Fairy-Stories," this episode traces how northern courage (fight for the good of the day without counting on ultimate triumph) meets Christian eucatastrophe: the sudden joyous turn that does not deny sorrow, but denies that defeat is the last word. Along the way: Beowulf's circle of light, Galadriel's "long defeat," Helm's Deep at dawn, and Gandalf on despair versus doomed resistance.

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